Changing Workforce Drives Control Room Modernization:
Process industries are experiencing many challenges on many fronts:
modernization projects, a younger workforce, data integration, new
workflows. These drivers are asking control rooms to evolve and expand
with the help of mobile and collaboration technologies. (2013)

Consortium Reports New Findings on Alarm Rates:
New research funded by the Center for Operator Performance shows that
process operators may perform better at high alarm rates when alarms are
grouped by priority, rather than chronologically. (2010)

Automation World

Control Systems, Oh, No...Not Again!:
The Process Industries Have Been Faced with a Continuing Series of
Refinery, Chemical Plant, Mining and Even Food Plant Disasters. These
Continue to Happen with Distressing Regularity. Who's at Fault? It's the
Culture, Not the Control Systems. (2010)

Human Factors Issues in Oil and Chemical Processing
Presented at the American Nuclear Society Conference, San Diego, CA
(Jul. 2012)

ANS.org

Impact of Alarm Rates and Interface Design on Operator Performance:
The Center for Operator Performance, Dayton, Ohio, funded recent
research into the effects of different alarm rates and interface designs
on operator performance. Statistically significant effects were found.
In this podcast interview, recorded on April 16, 2010, Managing Editor
Wes Iversen discusses the results with David Strobhar, chief human
factors engineer at Beville Engineering, Dayton, and a member of the
Center. (2010)

Leadership Focus Podcast: Improving Operator Performance:
The people who control chemical processes (the operators) must monitor
more equipment and have less hands-on experience with the process,
making it harder for them to be effective. Traci Purdum, Chemical
Processing's senior digital editor, talks with Dave Strobhar --
principal human factors engineer for Beville Engineering. Dave is also a
guiding light behind the Center for Operator Performance. (2010)

Operator Performance Gets Better:
Prioritized Data, Simpler Displays, Human-Factors-Designed Equipment,
Fatigue-Reduction Efforts, Alarm Planning and Other Tools Can All
Improve Situational Awareness and Operator Performance. So How Much Do
You Need of Each? (2013)